Create folders with leading zeroes in Powershell

Question

I've been using this script to create folders:

$i = 1
cd\
md d:\user$1
$i++

However it spits out folder like these...

d:\user1
d:\user2
d:\user3

What i want is two leading zeros, so that when i get to 009 it gracefully switches to a single leading zero.
Like wise at 099 it should transition to 100.

This is what I want it to output:

d:\user001
d:\user010
d:\user100

Currently i'm inserting the zeros into the script to before the $i, and removing it as it jumps into the second and third digits.
Everything i have read mentions using a string to get the preceding zeros.

Is that the only way?

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Reddit: Get powershell to count and include the leading zeros without using a string?

Answer 1

use something like this:

0..10 | % { "user{0:000}" -f $_ } | % { New-Item -ItemType directory -Name $_ }

Answer 2

Just replace your md command with something like:

md ( "d:\user" + ( "{0:D3}" -f $i ))

Still kinda arcane, but seems to work for me...